Improved washing, wringing, and mangling machime



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR OHIPMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

iMPaovi-:D WASHING, WRINGING, AND MANGLING MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Leiters Patent No. 40,159, dated October 6, 1863.

To aZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, EDGAR GHIPMAN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Combination of a Clothes-Washing Machine, VVringer, and Mangle; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Y Figure l. is a side sectional view of my invention taken in the line :v Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan or top view ot' the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twotigures.

This invention consists in the employment or use of an oscillating` cylindrical or semicylindrical suds box provided with weights or counterpoises, and also` provided with a uted roller in combination with pressurerollers and a sliding` bed, all being arranged in such a manner as to form a new and useful combination of a washing-machine, wringer, and mangle, as hereinafter fully set forth.

. To enable those skilled 1n the art to fully understand and construct my iuvention,I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a suds-box, which may be of cylindrical or senncylindrical form, the latter shape being preferable. This suds-box may be constructed of wood, and its bottoni a, which is the curved part, may be covered with sheet metal b, zinc being a good mat-erial for the purpose. This sudsboxA is suspended by a shaft, B, between uprights c c, which are attached to a suitable base-plate or bed, d, and the shaft B is allowed to turn freely in the uprights c c, the suds box being screwed to the shaft so that theformer will turn with the latter.

At each side of the suds-box A there is an upright, e, ou which a sliding or adjustable weight, B, is placed, and below the suds-box A, between the two uprights c c, there are placed three rollers, O C C. The upper surfaces of the rollers O O are in one and the same horizontal plane. The centralroller, C', is much larger in diameter than the other two, O O, and its upper edge a trifle above C O when not forced down by the suds-box A, and the journals of the shafts j' of the latter are fitted in fixed bearings, while the bearings g of the shaft h of the roller C rest on india-rubber or other springs, i, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, to admit of said roller yielding or giving toa certain extent.

D represents a bed, which is a plane surface, and may be constructed of wood or metal. This bed D is nearly or quite equal in width to the rollers C C C', and it may be of any suitable length, said bed when in use being placed between the bottom a of the suds-box A and the rollers C C O, as shown in Fig. l. The rollers C C C may be wood or metal.

Within the suds-box A there is placed a tluted roller, E, the journals of the shaft j of which are fitted in bearings lc at the inner surfaces of the sides of the suds-box, and indiarubber or other springs may, if desired or necessary, rest on the journals of shaft j, to admit of a certain degree ot' vertical play or movement of said roller E. The suds-box A is provided with a door, l, at its top.

The operation is as follows: The box A is supplied with a requisite quantity of suds and the clothes to be washed placed therein.

The slide D being withdrawn from between the bottom of the suds-box and the rollers O O O, the weights or couuterpoises B are then raised or lowered ou the arms e, so as to balance or counterpoise the box A and its contents, and the shaft B is then rocked or turned a portion of a revolution, first in one direction and then in the other. a rocking or swinging motion being thereby given the suds-box A, and the clothes by their own gravity will as the box A is thus oscillated or rocked pass at the elevated side down the curved bottom a., between it and the iiuted roller E. The clothes will in consequence be eftectually cleansed, and by a very slight expenditure of power, owing to the balancing or counterpoising of the suds-box and its contents on the shaft B. After the clothes are washed the sliding bed D is inserted between the bottom a of the suds-box A and the rollers C C G, and the clothes will have the moisture expressed from them by being passed on the bed D underneath the curved bottom a of the suds box' A. The rollers- O O O', therefore, in connection with the suds-box A and sliding-bed D, are made to serve as a wringer and also as a mangle. The rollers C C, it will be seen, serve as guides or bearings for the sliding bed D, the pressure being on the roller C.

By this simple arrangement, therefore, a very useful and efeient combination of a Washing machine, Wringer, and mangle is obtained.

I would remark that when the device is used as a Washing-machine the roller C' is let down so as to be free from the suds-box A by removing the springs from underneath the hearings of the journals of the shaft of said roller.

I do not claim separately the rocking or herein set forth.

EDGAR GHIPMAN. Witnesses:

' Trios. S. J. DOUGLAS,

J. W. CooMBs. 

